Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.